The encyclopedia magica does IBCIBC is the next constructed qualifiers so it's nice to take a look at what to expect.
Archetypes
Mono-Red Sligh- Yes just red sligh does work in IBC it has enough decent beat-sticks and burn to function quickly. The premise is simple drop some creatures and start the beats. Bend or Break stalls the game out and the burn can finish out the game in a pinch. The deck averages around turn 5-7 kills, and has a chance against a lot of the current field i've test-played. This deck loses to Domain for the first game since you have no way to stop restraint and counters for your burn. The only way to win is to get really lucky with a LOT of late game burn or an early Bend or Breaks so you can keep attacking. G/R Beats is also a tough match up at all times, because of the large creatures and burn of their own.
Gallet Gun Sligh V. 1.42
Creatures
4x Bloodfire Dwarf
4x Firebrand Ranger
4x Kavu Aggressor
4x Skizzik
2x Flametongue Kavu
2x Tahngarth, Talruum Hero
Spells
4x Assault/Battery
4x Fire/Ice
4x Urza's Rage
2x Magma Burst
4x Bend or Break
Land
20x Mountain
2x Shivan Oasis
SB
3x Shivan Harvest
2x Elfhame Palace
1x Shivan Oasis
3x Hull Breach
3x Order/Chaos
3x Dodecapod
Red-White Sligh- This new deck has the new beefier Mogg fanatic in Goblin Legionare, it also gains Squee's Embrace, and even in some cases a Rakavolver or two helps the deck. The only thing about this deck is you have to try to play some cheaper creatures and not all gold ones either that wrecks the deck. Plays the same as sligh with some better creatures in exchange for some mana issues. This has a better shot against Domain and G/R beats, but loses to ponza way easier than normal sligh.
Final Flash Sligh V. 1.16
Creatures
4x Bloodfire Dwarf
4x Goblin Legionare
4x Rakavolver
4x Skizzik
3x Flowstone Charger
Spells
4x Assault/Battery
4x Fire/Ice
4x Urza's Rage
3x Orim's Thunder
4x Squee's Embrace
Lands
4x Battlefield Forge
4x Plains
15x Mountain
SB
4x Order/Chaos
3x Obsidian Acolyte
4x Dodecapod
3x Plains
1x Orim's Thunder
Mono-red Ponza- Yes LD is back! Oh and it can be mono-colored in IBC plus it doesn't suck! Yes that's all well and good the LD spells other than Turf Wound are good, you would be amazed how many times you kicker Dwarven Landslide. This deck get's maimed by Spiritmonger, in all honesty if they have mana to regen. it every turn, your only hope is to stall until your army/burn wins. Also keep Bloodfire Colossus in the deck, every time you play him he can nuke all creatures except for regen. and kick the other guy in the nuts during the end game. The SB is for the most part made to annihalate Spiritmonger, and other large annoying creatures.
BS ponza V. 1.01
Creatures
4x Skizzik
3x Flametongue Kavu
2x Tahngarth, Tarluum Hero
2x Bloodfire Colossus
Spells
3x Turf Wound
4x Implode
4x Pain/Suffering
4x Dwarven Landslide
3x Breath of Darigaaz
3x Ghitu Fire
Artifacts
4x Star Compass
Lands
24x Mountain
SB
4x Urborg Volcano
3x Swamp
4x Terminate
4x Tsabo's Decree
G/R/B Obliterate- Yes Obliterate backed by Overabundance is a very quick combo and if you add Penumbra Kavu and Wurm's popping up new token creatures. You may also use Pernicious Deed's to blow up other creatures and enchantments. Add some cards you can abuse with the boost of mana from overabundance and you have a deck. You can also replace the black with white for Rout, Powerstone Minefield, and Overgrown Estate. Funny how this thing gets reamed by Counter unless you just lay them out with a very quick 4th turn Wurm and 5th turn Obliterate. Discard is also a real bitch for this deck.
Big Bang V. 1.21
Creatures
4x Penumbra Kavu
4x Penumbra Wurm
Spells
4x Pernicious Deed
4x Addle
4x Ghitu Fire
4x Overabundance
4x Obliterate
4x Terminate
Lands
4x Darigaaz's Caldera
4x Llanowar Wastes
4x Shivan Oasis
4x Urborg Volcano
5x Mountain
7x Forest
SB
4x Mask of Intolerance
4x Hull Breach
4x Life/Death
3x Spiritmonger
G/R Real Fires- Well if you don't know how Fires works, he's a quickie tutorial. Step 1: Lay a Fires of Yavimaya. Step 2: Lay a creature and attack. Step 3: Shoot off burn to kill off opposing player. Step 4: Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you win. You will get crushed by Spiritmonger's. They will simply crush your creatures except for Rith. You have a chance thanks to Rith's Grove and Order/Chaos. An intresting Variant is to take out some of the 2 and 3 drops to add Penumbra Kavu and Penumbra Bobcat's.
Great Rith's of Fire V. 1.05
Creatures
4x Quirion Elves
4x Kavu Titan
4x Raging Kavu
4x Jade Leech
3x Flametongue Kavu
2x Tahngarth, Tarluum Hero
2x Shivan Wurm
2x Rith, the Awakener
Spells
4x Fires of Yavimaya
3x Hull Breach
4x Urza's Rage
Lands
4x Rith's Grove
4x Shivan Oasis
2x Elfhame Palace
7x Forest
7x Mountain
SB
4x Tangle
4x Overabundance
4x Kavu Chameleon
3x Mask of Intolerance
Dark Fires:- This version of Fires packs black so they can use Spiritmonger, small bits of discard and other black removal. This weakens the mana base, but strengthen's the overall deck performance.
Night Fire
Creatures
4x Thunderscape Familiar
4x Kavu Titan
4x Raging Kavu
4x Ebony Treefolk
3x Flametongue Kavu
2x Tahngarth, Talruum Hero
3x Spiritmonger
Spells
4x Fires of Yavimaya
4x Urza's Rage
3x Pernacious Deed
Lands
4x Shivan Oasis
4x Llanowar Wastes
6x Forest
6x Mountain
3x Darigaaz's Caldera
2x Swamp
SB
4x Hull Breach
4x Overabundance
3x Kavu Chameleon
4x Obliterate
U/W/R control- U/W is one of the most effective control decks in the enviroment. But, I hate all the current kill methods i've seen. So I decided to throw in red to take advantage of Fire/Ice and the simple kill mechanism of kickered Urza's Rage's. Suffocating blast just wasn't good enough with the mana base I use. Besides most of the time the creatures are already dealt with because of Teferi's Moat, Sunken Hope, and Rout. Reviving Vapors let you do a quick top-deck search and gain life. Meanwhile Fire/Ice, Fire is some cheap creature kill, while Ice let's you draw and stall the other player in the early game. This deck has problems with anything that disrupts the mana flow, Kavu Chameleons are still annoying, and Spiritmonger's that get into play could cause problems. The SB is transformational turning it into a modified poor man's Aggro-control deck.
Creatureless-Death V. 1.02
Spells
4x Urza's Rage
4x Prohibit
4x Absorb
4x Rout
4x Teferi's Moat
3x Order/Chaos
4x Reviving Vapors
4x Fire/Ice
2x Fact or Fiction
Land
10x Island
8x Plains
4x Coastal Tower
5x Mountain
SB
4x Meddling Mage
3x Voice of All
4x Lighting Angel
4x Dismantling Blow
B/G Zombie Doom or Mommy where's my brain?- This deck is mostly based off Zombies combined with the massive pump that Strength of the Night gives. The deck pretty much builds itself. Pack 16 or more zombies, add four Lord of the Undead, add discard and some removal. There you have a decent deck, but then you run the game breaker, Strength of the Night. For 4 mana you have a +3/+3 to all zombies at instant speed. Specific issues include adding Phyrexian Arena for card advantage, I personally would run 3-4 so you can start to ramp up card advantage. Adding Life/Death is very debatable. Also for creature removal I run Reckless Spite, because I like the double creature kill at cheap cost. One warning, this deck will be completely destroyed by Tsabo's Decree. Yet that is also your only chance against Spiritmonger.
B/G Zombie Doom V. 1.17
Creatures
4x Maggot Carrier
4x Llanowar Dead
4x Quagmire Druid
4x Phyrexian Scuta
4x Lord of the Undead
Spells
4x Strength of the Night
4x Addle
4x Phyrexian Arena
4x Reckless Spite
Lands
16x Swamp
4x Forest
4x Llanowar Wastes
SB
4x Tsabo's Decree
4x Blurred Mongoose
4x Pernacious Deed
3x Bog Down
Red Zone- This deck is a three colored beatdown deck using utillity spells from each color to go with the large resilient creatures. The deck is highly effective and can be very effective against almost any deck in IBC. The deck does have a large problem, if your mana and elves get attacked though. Dromar is a problem for the deck if he gets out, so that's who the 2 wallops are for.
Red Zone V. 1.19
Creatures
4x Quirion Elves
4x Goblin Legionaire
4x Kavu Titan
4x Noble Panther
3x Dodecapod
2x Flametongue Kavu
4x Charging Troll
3x Rith, the Awakener
Spells
3x Armadillo Cloak
3x Wax/Wane
3x Order/Chaos
Lands
4x Battlefield Forge
4x Shivan Oasis
4x Elfhame Palace
4x Forest
4x Plains
3x Mountain
SB
4x Global Ruin
3x Gaea's Herald
3x Aura Mutation
3x Powerstone Minefield
2x Wallop
B/W Arena- OK this was the most obvious deck out of apocalypse. I packed all the normal components of the B/W arena deck into this version. This version is pretty beatdown oriented though. Also below that is a variant of the deck.
Arena V. 1.03
Creatures
4x Spectral Lynx
4x Emblazoned Golem
4x Putrid Warrior
4x Haunted Angel
Spells
4x Phyrexian Arena
4x Gerrard's Verdict
4x Vindicate
4x Death Grasp
4x Addle
Land
4x Caves of Koilos
11x Swamp
9x Plains
SB
4x Voice of All
4x Mask of Intolerance
4x Addle
3x Rewards of Diversity
B/W/R Arena V. 1.08
Creatures
3x Spectral Lynx
3x Emblazoned Golem
4x Goblin Legionaire
3x Voice of All
3x Trench Wurm
Spells
4x Phyrexian Arena
4x Gerrard's Verdict
4x Death Grasp
4x Vindicate
4x Urza's Rage
Lands
4x Caves of Koilos
4x Urborg Volcano
8x Swamp
5x Plains
3x Mountain
SB
4x Global Ruin
4x Powerstone Minefield
4x Order/Chaos
3x Aura Blast
B/U beats- The idea is just to lay a few creatures, using bounce to remove any obstructions and counters to stop other removal. This deck has many problems with a large amount of burn and large creatures. Since the only was to stop the larger of the creatures is with recoil and the counters.
Dark Skies
4x Vodalian Zombie
4x Ravenous Rats
4x Emblazoned Golem
4x Uborg Drake
2x Marsh Crocodile
2x Doomsday Specter
4x Sleeper's Robe
4x Undermine
4x Evasive Action
4x Recoil
4x Salt Marsh
8x Swamp
8x Island
4x Dromar's Cavern
SB
3x Lobotomy
3x Dromar, the Banisher
3x Mask of Intolerance
3x Coastal Tower
3x Vindicate
B/R Void- The deck is built off of discard and removal. It's highly effective against opposing creature decks and with some solid discard spells can put up a fight against control decks as well. The creature base can consist of Specters, Rats , Skizziks, and other large creatures. Or it can have a low cost variety of zombies to fill your ranks. Anyway your deck should work fine against a large amount of decks since it has a large amount of discard and removal. You should watch out for enchantments, they could cause problems for you.
Null and Void
Creatures
4x Ravenous Rats
3x Blazing Specter
3x Trench Wurm
4x Emblazoned Golem
2x Pyre Zombie
Spells
4x Terminate
4x Urza's Rage
3x Breath of Darigaaz
4x Addle
3x Void
Lands
4x Urborg Volcano
4x Darigaaz's Caldera
9x Swamp
9x Mountain
SB
4x Orim's Thunder
1x Pyre Zombie
4x Backlash
3x Shivan Zombie
3x Plains
Wild Research: This deck is like Domain in that it uses enchantments and counters to rule the game. There are 2 main versions of the deck, one is to have just the wild research colors U/R/W, or the second which is to go 4 or 5 colored and usually relies more on the powerful gold instants of each enemy color and recursion with Yawgmoth's Agenda. Also consistency is key, since most wild research decks will die if the research does not come out to play. Your other problem is building the deck so you won't have to worry too much about it going boom. One option people seemed to of overlooked is just packing a few Hanna's in the deck to recur enchantments you lose. Also a few other good options are Yavimaya's Embrace, the Shifting Sky/Teferi's Moat combo, and a single Dueling Grounds. The main kill is handled by the single grif and 2 Urza's Rage. Of course you can win with the dagger, Orim's Thunder, Embrace, and Maneuver.
Wild Oath
Creatures
4x Jungle Barrier
1x Questing Phelddagrif
Spells
4x Wild Research
4x Opt
1x Dueling Grounds
1x Shifting Sky
1x Teferi's Moat
1x Prophetic Bolt
1x Captain's Maneuver
1x Order/Chaos
4x Fact or Fiction
2x Yavimaya's Embrace
2x Urza's Rage
1x Quicksliver Dagger
1x Orim's Thunder
1x Suffocating Blast
Land
4x Coastal Tower
4x Shivan Reef
2x Battlefield Forge
4x Yavimaya Coast
3x Mountain
5x Island
3x Forest
SB
4x Gainsay
2x Questing Phelddagrif
4x Dodecapod
3x Tsabo's Decree
2x Dismantling Blow
Recur-Discard: You use a small group of very large creatures, discard, card drawing (i.e., fact or fiction and probe) and then add reanimation in the forms of
Life/Death and Cauldron Dance. All I have to say is, dropping a Dromar from your 3rd turn probe, 4th turn Life/death is fun. Oh and why do I use Dromar? It has no drawbacks is a 6/6 flyer and has the Wash-Out feature build into him. Besides paying 6 life is better than 16 to get a Draco out of the graveyard. Cauldron Dance will be used on Draco, and if you want to include him Devouring Strossus. Besides Dromar is also in there, becuase you can cast him normally. You have mostly discard and if you choose to add them a few counters.
Dance of Reanimation
Creatures
4x Draco
4x Dromar, the Banisher
Spells
3x Fact or Fiction
4x Probe
4x Addle
4x Life/Death
4x Twilight's Call
4x Vindicate
4x Rout
Land
4x Caves of Kolios
4x Salt Marsh
4x Coastal Tower
4x Dromar's Cavern
3x Island
3x Plains
3x Swamp
G/W Train: The deck is based off of a large amount of gold G/W creatures backed by a little pump, enchantment, and land removal. There isn't too much to explain, I use Global Ruin as a crappy armageddon, Wax/Wane for pump and enchantment removal. The main problem is against a normal control deck you die, since Teferi's Moat+Counters=GG the only thing you have against them is the 4 Voice of All's.
Drops of Jupiter
Creatures
4x Quirion Elves
3x Llanowar Knight
3x Emblazoned Golem
3x Kavu Titan
4x Noble Panther
4x Charging Troll
4x Voice of All
Spells
3x Armadillo Cloak
4x Wax/Wane
4x Global Ruin
Lands
4x Elfhame Palace
10x Forest
10x Plains
SB
4x Kavu Chameleon
4x Rewards of Diversity
4x Aura Mutation
3x Order/Chaos
The Solution: I turned the metagame anwser deck into a solid U/W aggro control. I can't say what beats the deck because you should still like the orignal deck, tune it to your local metagame. I added Shifting Sky to play cute little tricks with Voice of All and Galina's Knight by calling black.
Gorillaz
Creatures
4x Galina's Knight
4x Meddling Mage
4x Emblazoned Golem
3x Silver Drake
4x Voice of All
Spells
4x Absorb
4x Evasive Action
4x Opt
2x Order/Chaos
3x Shifting Sky
Land
4x Coastal Tower
11x Island
9x Plains
SB
1x Shifting Sky
2x Order/Chaos
4x Aura Blast
4x Wash Out
4x Rewards of Diversity
B/G Monger: Blah this is like the new Fires totally self built and just like the Arena deck totally self explanatory. Lay a large beatly creature and hit the other guy around until he expires.
Spiritual Deed
Creatures
4x Urborg Elf
4x Llanowar Dead
4x Emblazoned Golem
4x Ebony Treefolk
4x Spiritmonger
Spells
4x Addle
4x Pernacious Deed
4x Bog Down
4x Phyrexian Arena
Land
4x Llanowar Wastes
10x Forest
10x Swamp
SB
4x Dodecapod
4x Mask of Intolerance
4x Tsabo's Decree
3x Yawgmoth's Agenda
Call: This deck is based around Eladamri's Call and Restocks to search for key creatures against many a deck. Common choices for the creature base is Voice of All, Acyolytes, Charging Troll, FTKs, Mystic Snake, Tahngarth, the Battlemages, Sabertooth Nishoba, Reya, Gaea's Herald, Volvers, Spiritmonger, Desolation Angel, and Desolation Giant. Search through all that and pick some creatures then throw in various spells to live and you have a deck.
The Call Remix
Creatures
2x FTK
1x Reya, Dawnbringer
1x Voice of All
1x Desolation Angel
4x Quirion Dryad
1x Sabertooth Bishoba
1x Spiritmonger
1x Cetavolver
1x Rakavolver
1x Phyrexian Gargantua
1x Rith, the Awakener
1x Gaea's Herald
Spells
4x Eladmari's Call
3x Restock
3x Wild Research
4x Harrow
4x Fact or Fiction
Land
4x Yaviamya Coast
4x Battlefield Forge
4x Elfhame Palace
4x Coastal Tower
4x Swamp
5x Forest
1x Plains
1x Island
1x Mountain
SB
1x Obsidian Acolyte
1x Crimson Acolyte
4x Dodecapod
1x Restock
1x Wild Research
4x Addle
1x Dismantling Blow
Bouncy Snake: Uh I really don't see much of a deck here, at least a good one. I've made and seen a few that can crush certain decks, but it's not really that great a deck. Too many losses against G/R, G/B, and my own pet sligh decks. If someone can make one of these decks that could do well against a number of decks I would be impressed.
Creatures
4x Gaea's Skyfolk
3x Emblazoned Golem
4x Mystic Snake
4x Jungle Barrier
Spells
4x Temporal Spring
4x Evasive Action
4x Prohibit
2x Aether Mutation
3x Sunken Hope
4x Fact or Fiction
4x Lay of the Land
Land
4x Yavimaya Coast
8x Forest
8x Island
SB
4x Wash Out
4x Gaea's Herald
4x Kavu Chameleon
1x Sunken Hope
2x Tangle
Go-Mar: This deck is a W/U/B deck which has card drawing, bounce, counters, and of course Dromar as a kill mechanism. The counters are pretty solid in 4 Absorb, Undermine, and Prohibits. Creature removal can be handled by Vindicate and Wash-Out. The only other creatures I could think of adding in addition to Dromar was Voice of All.
Go-Mar, Blah
Creatures
4x Dromar, the Banisher
Spells
4x Vindicate
4x Rout
3x Death Grasp
4x Addle
4x Undermine
4x Absorb
2x Dromar's Charm
4x Fact or Fiction
Land
4x Coastal Tower
4x Salt Marsh
4x Caves of Kolios
5x Island
5x Plains
5x Swamp
SB
4x Rewards of Diversity
2x Dromar's Charm
4x Wash Out
3x Aura Blast
2x Dismantling Blow
Pet: This deck is based around dropping a Dralnu's Pet and then discarding a Draco or Devouring Strossus. The deck runs good card drawing in FoF and Opt. You may recur discarded creatures with Life/Death and creatures are handled by Rout and Vindicate.
This deck has problems with Go-Mar and Domain the deck just can't handle counters.
Creatures
4x Dralnu's Pet
4x Draco
2x Devouring Strosuss
3x Dromar, the Banisher
Spells
4x Opt
4x Fact or Fiction
4x Rout
4x Vindicate
Land
4x Coastal Tower
4x Caves of Kolios
4x Plains
4x Swamp
4x Salt Marsh
7x Island
SB
4x Dodecapod
4x Addle
4x Mask of Intolerance
3x Dismatling Blow
Sanctuary: This is a B/G/W deck, that's built around getting one or more Necra Sanctuaries out with green and white permanents in play. Sterling Grove is protection and search all in one, and Overgrown Estate is commonly used to provide a way for the Sanctuary player to keep herself alive while the Necra Sanctuaries do their job. Routs, Vindicates, and Order/Chaos handles creature threats. While with Elfhame Sanctuary and estate out you can gain 3 life a turn while the Necra Sanctuaries go to work. Elhame Sanctuary is not a instant add, i've seen the deck work without it. Necravolver is worth including in the deck, and is simply amazing once he is double kickered.
Sanctuary
Creatures
4x Necravolver
Spells
4x Necra Sanctuary
4x Overgrown Estate
4x Sterling Grove
4x Rout
4x Vindicate
2x Order/Chaos
2x Restock
3x Phyrexian Arena
4x Addle
Land
4x Elfhame Palace
4x Caves of Kolios
4x Llanowar Wastes
4x Darigaaz's Caldera
6x Forest
3x Plains
R/U Control: The deck uses some decent counters, card-drawing, and mass burn/bounce to control the game. The deck has not been effective in my testing because of the limits of burn on large creatures and the fact that my W/U/R control deck owns it, because of the fact that the counters are solid, plus the life gain makes Urza's Rages not work as well as they should.
Flaming Think
Creatures
2x Tahngarth, Tarluum Hero
3x Flametongue kavu
2x Bloodfire Colossus
Spells
4x Fire/Ice
4x Urza's Rage
4x Prophetic Bolt
3x Wash Out
4x Prohibit
4x Evasive Action
4x Fact or Fiction
Land
4x Shivan Coast
10x Island
12x Mountain
SB
4x Dodcapod
4x Mask of Intolerance
3x Ghitu Fire
4x Gainsay
R/W/U Beatdown: You have a good deal of effective creatures in the deck and card drawing options. Pack some burn for creature removal and for ending the game. Well the deck ain't that great against control decks since you have no creatures unless you can keep pingers out there.
AngelStorm
Creatures
4x Goblin Legionaires
4x Razorfin Shaman
4x Skizzik
4x FTK's
4x Lightning Angel
Spells
3x Quicksliver Dagger
4x Opt
3x Fire/Ice
3x Urza's Rage
3x Prophetic Bolt
Land
4x Battlefield Forge
4x Shivan Coast
4x Coastal Tower
5x Mountain
5x Island
2x Plains
SB
4x Dodcapod
4x Mask of Intolerance
4x Shivan Harvest
3x Voice of All
Well that's it, I know I missed Domain, but I think that has been substanialy covered in other places, and I won't post a Fervent Charge deck until it's win ratio is substanially improved. I may have missed others, but this is a pretty comprehensive list.
Hope you learned something and see you later.
Vegeta2711
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